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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023-4524-01 Moderate Libcap Fix

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical patch issued for OpenSSL resolves buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 20.04. Urgent response needed.
An update for libcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.
Security Fix(es):
* libcap: Integer Overflow in _libcap_strdup() (CVE-2023-2603)
* libcap: Memory Leak on pthread_create() Error (CVE-2023-2602)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity memory leak integer overflow libcap

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2602 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-2603 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: libcap-2.48-5.el8_8.src.rpm
aarch64: libcap-2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm libcap-debuginfo-2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm libcap-debugsource-2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm libcap-devel-2.48-5.el8_8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libcap-2.48-5.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm libcap-debuginfo-2.48-5.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm libcap-debugsource-2.48-5.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm libcap-devel-2.48-5.el8_8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libcap-2.48-5.el8_8.s390x.rpm libcap-debuginfo-2.48-5.el8_8.s390x.rpm libcap-debugsource-2.48-5.el8_8.s390x.rpm libcap-devel-2.48-5.el8_8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libcap-2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm libcap-2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm libcap-debuginfo-2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm libcap-debuginfo-2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm libcap-debugsource-2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm libcap-debugsource-2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm libcap-devel-2.48-5.el8_8.i686.rpm libcap-devel-2.48-5.el8_8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4524-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4524
Issue date: 2023-08-08

Topic

An update for libcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity memory leak integer overflow libcap

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2209113 - CVE-2023-2603 libcap: Integer Overflow in _libcap_strdup()

2209114 - CVE-2023-2602 libcap: Memory Leak on pthread_create() Error

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